Category: Hasidism

Elieser Slomovic

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It is a sheltered community known for its devotion to old world values, but some say its a community with a secret made worse by decades of cover-up and law enforcement that looks the other way. “We have a wonderful community, a beautiful community, but we have some of the same of the problems the rest of the world have,” Assemblyman Dov Hikind recently told CBS 2’s Chris Wragge. One of the most memorable stories in "Goodbye Columbus" is about the resistance of assimilated Jews in a suburban town to the presence of a Hasidic yeshiva.

Yair Hillel Goelman

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During the war �the population of Germany [which was divided into 300 territories] was cut by about two thirds with a loss of several million lives.� Paul Tillich writes that in the wake of the war, �life became extremely brutal, unrefined, and uneducated.� And, �the orthodox Lutheran theologians do not do much about it.� Like the Jews who had built their hope on Shabbetai Zevi, many German Lutherans suffered a profound crisis of faith.

The Zaddik then came to function both as a spiritual guide to the few thirsting for a closer relationship with God and as a man of prayer and a miracle-worker for the masses. Half the Bedouins are below the age of 13. It was such a brief moment in time, six to eight months, but it was the happiest time I remember. Man hallows creation by being himself and working in his own sphere. I had watched, after my family’s issues were brought into court, how my children’s attitudes changed markedly.

Elie Wiesel

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The term “haredim”—once used to simply denote the religious—is today commonly reserved for those most extreme of Orthodox Jews who, although they have changed over time, claim to have made no compromises wit contemporary secular culture or essential changes in the way they practice their Judaism from what the tradition and halakhah have sanctified throughout the ages. While other books offer better first introductions to Hasidism, this gives a subsequent deeper understanding for the reader, and an encounter with the writings of the movement The Great Mission – The Life and Story of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov ,Compiler Eli Friedman, Translator Elchonon Lesches, Kehot Publication Society.

Inspired in part by comparable pietistic movements in both Eastern and Western European Christianity, Hasidism stressed the superiority of religious enthusiasm and devotion over study and intellectualism. Although not removed from their followers in their personal practice, they kept away from earthly pleasures. Each dynasty follows its own principles; thus Hasidic Judaism is not one movement, but a collection of separate individual groups with some commonality.

Most Synagogues are Neolog, which as a movement is more observant than Conservative, and at least two Neolog Shuls are fully halachik. Devekut (communion) refers to the belief that between the world of God and the world of humanity there is an unbroken intercourse. And the better you fulfill it, the more you have fulfilled yourself. Moreover, the Ḥasidic dogma of the necessity of maintaining a cheerful disposition, and the peculiar manner of awakening religious exaltation at the meetings of the sectarians—as, for instance, by the excessive use of spirituous liquors—inspired the ascetic rabbis with the belief that the new teachings induced moral laxity or coarse epicureanism.

Yechiel Granatstein

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After the war, several songs were written to commemorate people killed in the Holocaust. Therefore, it is important to read our prayers from written texts, word for word. Breslov: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, in his general encouragement of emotional intensity, taught the importance of being joyful in the extreme at all times. Kol hakavod to you!" "I picked your book-- Jewish Tales of Holy Women -- off the shelf yesterday, to put it back with the 'B's' and opened it up.

Adin Steinsaltz

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Based on cases reported to DOHMH during April 2006–December 2011, the risk for neonatal herpes caused by HSV-1 and untyped HSV following Jewish ritual circumcision with confirmed or probable direct orogenital suction in New York City was estimated at 1 in 4,098 or 3.4 times greater than the risk among male infants considered unlikely to have had direct orogenital suction. Charges of Pantheistic tendencies were incorrectly ascribed to Hasidism, by their early religious opponents( Mitnagdim ), and by historians of the later secularising Haskalah movement.

Ayala Fader

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Basically, the white noise variance, impact prediction models and update information sets as they move forward in time. Within Jewish study, Hasidic philosophy gave earlier Jewish thought new interpretations, that can synthesise and spiritualise the other dimensions of Judaism. When the father of the seven-year-old boy whom Rabbi Rosenberg rescued from the Jerusalem bathhouse showed up to collect his son, he couldn’t believe his son had been raped.

Moshe Meir Weiss

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Four main groups of Jews emerged: Sadducees, conservative "letter-of-the-law" priests and wealthy business-people; Pharisees, devout yet more liberal scribes, rabbis and citizens of all social classes (the two greatest religious teachers of the age, Hillel and Shammai, were Pharisees); Zealots, fervently awaiting a Messiah, intolerant of foreign (Roman) rule; and Essenes, a strict, ascetic, mystic monastic group, with marked Zoroastrian and Orphic influence in their rather Messianic ideas.